Michael Eddington was a Starfleetsecurity officer assigned to station Deep Space Nine. Eddington became disillusioned with Starfleet and the Federation, and joined the Maquis. He was captured, but was killed during a special operation while serving his sentence. Eddington was born in Canada.

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Starfleet Career

Eddington was stationed to DS9 in 2371 after first contact with the Dominion. This was done in part to increase Starfleet control of the station's security operations, as Starfleet did not have full confidence in the current security chief, Odo. (DS9: "The Search, Part I")

Odo and Eddington worked closely from that point on, coordinating security operations aboard the station. When CommanderBenjamin Sisko defied the direct orders of Admiral Toddman not to pursue the Tal Shiar/Obsidian Order fleet on their mission to destroy the Founders, Eddington was ordered to sabotage the cloaking device, a mission he completed. However, Eddington was not relieved of duty, as he ensured Sisko that he had been issued no further orders from Toddman, and intended to fulfill his duty to the Commander. (DS9: "The Die is Cast")

On a mission to patrol the Tzenkethi border, Eddington was assigned by Commander Sisko be the personal guard for AmbassadorKrajensky. It was subsequently learned that Krajensky had bee replaced by a changeling infiltrator. Eddington began an initial security sweep of the USS Defiant, but the whereabouts of the shapeshifter remained unknown. Eddington also participated in the armed search of the ship, where the infiltrator was encountered by Sisko, who was wounded in the brief struggle. Blood tests of the crew were ordered, and one sample appeared to show that Eddington was an changeling as well. This was proven to be false when it was determined that the changeling had impersonated Doctor Bashir, and had administered the screening test itself. (DS9: "The Adversary")

In 2372, Eddington was left in command of the station when Captain Sisko, Major Kira, Lt. Commander Dax, Chief O'Brien and Lt. Commander Worf were absent. Upon their return, the runaboutOrinoco was sabotaged by the True Way organization and destroyed. However, the patterns of the five officers were stored in the transporter buffer through quick action taken by Eddington, who wiped all computer memory to create the space necessary to store such a complex set of information. In order to maintain their integrity, the computer deactivated all non-vital systems, and stored the patterns in the holosuite, where they appeared in the secret agent program being run by Julian Bashir and Garak at the time. Eddington assisted Odo, Quark and Rom in successfully rematerializing the four officers, despite the complicated and poor maintenance of the holosuites at Quark's. (DS9: "Our Man Bashir")

By 2373, Eddington had risen to become the leader of the Maquis rebels in the Demilitarized Zone, and Starfleet continued to search for his wherabouts. Captain Sisko arranged to meet with an informant named Cing'ta at a Maquis settlement on Marva IV to acquire information on Eddington. However, the Maquis were able to uncover the activities of Cing'ta, and Eddington had him marooned on an inhospitable planet in the Badlands. Eddington then confronted Sisko on the surface and attempted to communicate the demands of the Maquis to be granted recognized autonomy, to no avail. Upon returning to his raider, Eddington initiated an attack on the USS Defiant that inflicted heavy damage because vital systems were disabled by a latent computer virus that Eddington had installed before his defection. Similar viruses were located aboard Deep Space Nine and deactivated by ConstableOdo. Following this incident, Starfleet opted to remove Captain Sisko from the mission to capture Michael Eddington, and assigned it to Captain Sanders of the USS Malinche instead.

Michael Eddington and Rebecca Sullivan on Athos IV in 2373.

At relatively the same time as these events were transpiring, two Bolian freighters carrying several thousand tons of selenium and rodium nitrate were reported missing near the Badlands. With some chemical restructuring, these two substances could be used to create cobalt diselenide, a nerve agent that is harmless to most humanoids but deadly to Cardassians. Eddington initiated a biogenic weapon campaign to poison the atmosphere of all Cardassian colonies in the Demilitarized Zone, succeeding in doing so at his initial target, Veloz Prime. He was also responsible for an attack against the USS Malinche that left it adrift. The USS Defiant returned to the chase and pursued the Maquis, and accurately predicted the next targeted Cardassian colony, Quatal Prime, which Eddington attacked instead of a more logical raid on Panora. The USS Defiant arrived at the location too late; the cobalt diselenide devices had already been detonated in the atmosphere. Eddington disabled a fleeing Cardassian transport, and this action forced Sisko to look to the aid of the Cardassians before he could pursue the fleeing Maquis. Sisko, determined to prevent the destruction of further Cardassian colonies, detonated a trilithium resin device within the atmosphere of the Maquis colony on Solosos III, and threatened to perform the same action on every Maquis colony in the Demilitarized Zone. In order to spare the other Maquis worlds, Eddington turned over the remaining biogenic weapons and surrendered to Starfleet for court martial. (DS9: "For the Uniform")

When Starfleet uncovered communiques indicating that the Maquis had initiated a devastating attack against Cardassia shortly before the organization was destroyed by the Dominion, he was released into the care of CaptainSisko. The two men journeyed to the small planetoid of Athos IV in the Badlands, the supposed launch site of the missiles. It was learned that the attack was a ruse engineered to allow Eddington to rescue the survivors of the Maquis, but the Dominion had previously uncovered the location. The Jem'Hadar had located the base and captured it, inflicting significant casualties on the Maquis survivors. A dozen prisoners were kept under surveillance, but Sisko and Eddington were able to gain entrance to their cell and liberate these few Maquis survivors. Included among the prisoners was Rebecca Sullivan, the wife of Eddington whom he had married two weeks before his capture. Unfortunately, the couple were once again sundered, as he was killed by Jem'Hadar soldiers while covering the escape of Sisko and the other survivors. (DS9: "Blaze of Glory")

Interests

Eddington was particularly fond of the novel Les Misérables. He saw himself as the hero, Valjean, pursued by the inflexible policeman Javert, whom Eddington envisioned his former commander, Benjamin Sisko. (DS9: "For the Uniform")

Eddington had a family heirloom in the form of a two hundred year-old Canadian one dollar coin he called his "lucky loonie". (DS9: "Blaze of Glory")

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